Policing Black Bodies - How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change

Policing Black Bodies walks readers through critical issues facing African Americans in the criminal justice system-from police brutality to exoneration and re-entry. Synthesizing the latest research with their own data, Hattery and Smith review the history of policing African Americans, explore current issues, and offer recommendations for change.

List of contents

1 Setting the Stage
2 Urban Riots and Protest, or a Logical Response to Policing Black Bodies
3 Mass Incarceration
4 School-to-Prison Pipeline
5 The Prison-Industrial Complex: The New Plantation Economy
6 Policing Black Women's Bodies
7 Policing Trans Bodies
8 Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men
9 The Ultimate Failure: Exoneration
10 Intersectionality, Color-Blind Racism, and a Call to Action
Appendix A: High-Profile Police Shootings of Black Men and the Outcomes
Appendix B: Resources

About the author

Angela J. Hattery is professor and director of women and gender studies at George Mason University. Her books include Intimate Partner Violence.

Earl Smith is emeritus professor at Wake Forest University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Race, Sport, and the American Dream.

Together they are the authors of African American Families Today: Myths and Realities.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Hattery, Angela J. Hattery, Angela J. Smith Hattery, Hattery Angela J., Earl Smith
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2017
• EAN: 9781442276956
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7695-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Penology and punishment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people